Introduction
Lope de Vega was born in Madrid in 1562. Over his long career as a playwright and poet, he wrote hundreds of plays (estimates go from 500 to 2000) and multiple volumes of lyric poetry, narrative poems, and prose. Among the vast number of plays is Fuenteovejuna (1612), contained in Volume I of the anthology. He died in 1635.
In 1609, Lope wrote El arte Nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo (The New Art of Writing Plays in this Age), a treatise defending contemporary theatre against the traditionalists, who criticized drama that didn't adhere to the classical principles as set out in Aristotle's Poetics (see Ancient Theatre Section of this Website).
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